Make mine a double
In Competition No. 3195, you were invited to submit an extract from the racier, mass-market version of a well-known literary…
Barometer
Falling from grace Six Premier League football clubs had announced their intention to join a European Super League, from which…
2503: Applery
Six unclued lights are the names of traditional English county towns with one letter misprinted so as to form new…
2500: 50 x 50
The solution grid includes the letter L fifty times (L x 50 = 2500). Coincidentally, Doc and his wife, Jean,…
Reparations for slavery don’t add up
Last week, a bill cleared the US House Judiciary Committee that would establish a 13-person commission to consider federal reparations…
Walking football
As a footballer, I’m elderly not elite, meaning that I’m one of 60,000 or so 50- to 92-year-olds (yep, 92!)…
The Spectator’s Notes
The conviction of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd makes last summer’s Black Lives Matter mania in British…
Failure falls upward for John Kerry
Former defense secretary Robert Gates once wrote that President Joe Biden has been ‘wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and…
Cummings’ attack spells big trouble for Boris
When Number 10 briefed newspapers on Thursday that Dominic Cummings was the source of leaks of the Prime Minister’s text…
Putin steps back from the Ukrainian brink
After weeks building up forces in Crimea and close to the Ukrainian border — over 100,000, all told — Moscow…
Merkel’s vaccine nationalism threatens India
You might have thought that Europe’s leaders would be wary of handing Brussels greater powers, given the various mishaps of the…
London’s mayoral election is an embarrassment
Count Binface, a man who claims to be a 6,000-year-old ‘independent space warrior’, is running to be London mayor. In…
Number 10 should fear a Welsh nationalist coalition
As Disraeli’s famous maxim goes: England does not love coalitions. In Wales, by contrast, we can’t get enough of them.…
How the Tories can tackle generational inequality
Covid is far more fatal for the old than the young. But it is the young who have borne the…
We need more George Christensens in public life
I’m saddened to see my friend George Christensen bowing out of parliament at the next election. But much of our…
Distorting the news to inflame the mob
NBC’s flagship news program completely garbled one of the week’s top stories: a deadly fight among teenage girls in Columbus,…
Despite the premiers, we all march on Anzac Day
After 20 years of war in Afghanistan, Australian troops will be back home within months. They will not all return.…
Why do our black lives matter warriors ignore the deaths on our doorstep, in PNG?
Just to Australia’s north across a contiguous border, tens of thousands of Papua New Guineans are at constant risk from…
